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Sultani - Murad III Aleppo, type 1
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1575 |
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| Weight | 3.52 g |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Hammered gold reverse fully covered by a multi-line Arabic inscription in high-relief thuluth script, set within a beaded border matching the obverse. The legend, distributed across four or five lines filling the entire field, proclaims the imperial title 'Sultan of the Two Lands and Khagan of the Two Seas, the Sultan son of the Sultan,' a standard Ottoman honorific formula used on sultani gold coinage of the period. Individual letters display the characteristic sweeping calligraphic strokes and diacritical dots of Ottoman chancellery script. No figurative devices, symbols, or exergual elements are present, the design being entirely epigraphic in accordance with Islamic numismatic convention. |
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| Reverse lettering | سلطان البرين وخاقان البحرين السّلطان بن السّلطان (Translation: Sultan of the 2 lands and 2 seas The Sultan, son of the Sultan) |
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